In France, Scrutiny of Nursing Homes Brings Soaring Coronavirus Death Toll

PARIS—France has grow to be one particular of the initial international locations in the environment to systematically report the impression of the new coronavirus in its nursing residences, boosting the nation’s official dying toll from the virus by extra than 40%.

France is pressing nursing residences throughout the country—7,000 establishments housing 600,000 elderly people—to report fatalities of confirmed or suspected coronavirus clients to overall health authorities. So far, the nation has tallied three,237 fatalities in nursing residences due to the fact March one, in accordance to the overall health ministry. Only about…